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Motorway accident: police say hard-shoulder drivers will be collared
Rochdale Observer
|September 03, 2025
BY STEPHEN TOPPING
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SEVERAL M60 drivers are set to face action after driving down the hard shoulder while the motorway was shut.
A section of the ring road was closed following a crash on the anticlockwise carriageway close to junction 19, near Middleton, last Wednesday afternoon.
Greater Manchester Police attended the scene, alongside paramedics.
This story is from the September 03, 2025 edition of Rochdale Observer.
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